Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!ok From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity Message-ID: <855@quintus.UUCP> Date: 13 Dec 88 09:33:46 GMT References: <1131@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <1887@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <42@microsoft.UUCP> <4813@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <15406@joyce.istc.sri.com> <9157@smoke.BRL.MIL> <911@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Sender: news@quintus.UUCP Reply-To: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 17 In article <911@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> gsh7w@astsun1.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes: >Doug Gwyn writes: #I don't see any ethical problem with posting grades by name. It's #just a fact, not a judgement. I mean, who but Mary Smith cares what #grade she gets? >Would you like the entire school know that you failed (for example) >German last semester? If they see me taking the class again this semester, they'll have a pretty good idea. If they notice that I'm not taking any courses which have a pass in German as a pre-requisite, but that I had been planning to, they'll have a pretty good idea. It's hard to conceal something like that from anyone who really wants to know. You can't conceal failing your degree entirely; why is it so important to conceal a failure in a single subject? [I once had someone else's exam results posted to me by mistake...]